searching insed(ide) files

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 02:06:26PM +0200, Konrad Heuer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote:
> 
> > I am looking for a way to search inside a number of text files for a
> > particular string and return the name of the file if found. Any ideas?
> 
> grep -c string file file ... | grep '1$' | sed 's/:.*$//'

    grep -l string filename... 

does exactly what Anthony wants much more simply.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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